My response to Berjoe

If there's something every human being wants, it's love. Platonic love, romantic love, everyone wants to feel love, and everyone loves the tingly feeling they get from loving someone. But in the modern day and age, we have glorious SCIENCE to explain to us how things work, and when it comes down to it, love is nothing but hormones, chemicals and emotions. This is the argument of Berjoe who "don't believe in love" - "love is just a bunch of chemicals."

So?
Just because I understand that the sun is a big ball of exploding awesomeness doesn't make it any less beautiful, nor any less warm. Just because I understand photosynthesis, doesn't mean that it isn't as vital to the planet. If anything, understanding how things like this work make it even more beautiful to me - how incredibly complex and amazing things really are and how they work in harmony. Yes, love is nothing but sexual attraction, extreme like of another's personality, hormones, chemicals and instincts.... But does that make the feeling you get when you kiss your lover's lips any less special?

See, I understand that human life is nothing but noisy pieces of meat making sounds other pieces of meat understand - but life is like an onion. You have the core in the middle, which in this case would be "Humans = talking meat", and with that core, you can't really make much. But then you add layers upon layers upon layers - love, friends, experiences, sensations - and suddenly, you have enough onion layers to feed Africa. I understand that love is nothing but chemicals, but it's the layers around it - sensations, experiences, emotions - that make it worth having.


And then you have the people who say they don't "believe in love". By saying something so ass-sewn-to-head stupid, you are essentially saying "I don't believe in human relations". And friendship, family love and such is very much real - so why isn't romantic love? Aren't the feelings bubbling inside you real? See kids, you have to pick one of the two: "love is just a bunch of chemicals", or "love doesn't exist". The latter is like saying "Carbon doesn't exist." The former is stating a fact, but only the "onion core" of it.

I believe in love. The emotions, the sensations, the experiences, everything involved with it. The want to stay with someone till the end of time, the desire to stay in the person's proximity just a little while longer, everything included. 

"BUT J, LOVE DOESN'T LAST!!"

Of course it doesn't when couples aren't willing to put effort into it. If people can go through their entire life feeling depressed, or live their entire existence with the feeling that their right leg doesn't belong to them, why can't a feeling like love be sustained? All it takes is a little effort. Communication, doing activities together, letting your relationship grow and evolve instead of fearing of change - all those things are very important.


Love is nothing but chemicals. But hot damn, what a bunch of potent chemicals they are.


xoxo